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manu & neal. and i know most spurs fans have an undying hardon anytime they see manu come off the bench, but an honest evaluation of everyones play last night is necessary if we are to win this series.

manu was drunk. or at least he looked like it. he may have had less turnovers than tony but tony didn't ruin as many opportunities, that is for damn sure. everytime manu touched the ball he was stumbling, ruining the pace, taking poor shots, throwing poor passes, turning the ball over, or -almost- turning hte ball over and blowing seconds of critical clocktime against a desperate heat team willing to swarm the ball at any opportunity.

i don't even remember what his turnovers were 2? 3? he botched (a nice way of saying it) at least 10 possessions last night that could have swung our way and put lebron in the hurtlocker and made him play more selfishly to climb back from a deficit rather than play the floor carefully and analytically. that's how the pacers won, they made lebron play selfishly and it cost the heat a number of games.

don't even get me started on neal. this guy can't guard anyone, watchinh him try to guard chalmers or injured wade has got to be the most embarassing thing for any true spurs fan. this guy wasn't a good rapist, and he's not a good ball player, sure he made some nice 3's but his man was taking hte ball to the basket almost every possession rewatch the game and see how many points his shitty D cost us.

who knows why pop refused to bench manu, arguably the most hit or miss streaky player in the league at this point when it was clear he was bricking shots. who knows why pop continues to have a hardon for gary neal.

let's examine exactly where the lead got out of control. i remember, we were down by about 12 points, manu started freaking out you could see it on his face, and he and gary neal proceeded to brick 3 maybe even 4 3 point attempts instead of playing high percentage basketball to climb back and suddenly the lead was 20 points

the worst part is that tony parker and tim duncan are taking the blame and maybe popovich is dumb enough to think that they are to blame. i won't say they played fantastically but when you have two idiots on the court it's hard to get anything going. also tim duncan should realize he is doing the exact thing that chris bosh was doing this postseason that was costing miami games. i won't say tim duncan lost us the game, i will say that he is going to need to post up way more.

also, can we stop playing clean spurs basketball. fuck it. we are playing the dirtiest team in the league in my opinion. chris andersen is basically a hockey enforcer and lebron supposedly one of the greatest all time has no problem throwing his dignity all over the court if it draws him a shot at 2 FT's. we need to play far more aggressive and perhaps even more dirty if we're going to win this series.

I don't know, I think that a lot of people gave the right criticism to the team, I recall lots of people mentioning Manu should be left on the bench for the rest of the game (this after the 2nd quarter), same going for Neal afterwards.

Yea there were some players who fucked up individually but overall my annoyance with how the team played still goes back to how sloppy we were with the ball, especially upfront. It was just annoying to see SO MANY GODDAMN turnovers and so much sloppy play against the Heat's defense. Team didn't react around it and that ended up being part of the reason as to why we lost.

Other than Danny Green (who was having a fantastic game with the 3 point shots) and Kawhi Leonard (who did really well defending, especially against Lebron), I don't think there was any other player who really stood out yesterday.

When it comes to playing more aggressive and perhaps even more dirty, keep in mind JOEY CRAWFORD was the ref in the last game. Granted he was terrible in calling fouls for both sides, but so many stupid calls for the Heat. If we played more aggressive and more dirty yesterday, he would've had a ridiculously good time calling fouls for every little thing. Not saying we lost because of the ref, but it was getting out of hand.

Yup Danny Green was driving towards the basket and setting huge screens and doing more than just get open for 3 pointers, he and Kawhi looked like the all stars last night and Ginobili seriously looked like he had just learned how to dribble. Tony Parker got roughed up a bit and decided to play frenchman floater ball instead of driving to the rim as usual, and does anyone even know if Duncan made it out of his hotel room because I hardly even remember what his contribution to the game was.

I agree that the problem was turnovers but the underlying disease is popovich keeping bad players in the game instead of seeing if anyone else can get hot. Spoelstra doesn't even play Battier anymore cause he's been so consistently cold, and if Mike Miller or Ray Allen miss two-to-three 3PT attempts they sit on the bench for the game. Spoelstra is honestly looking like hte more hardnosed, sensible coach...

Tony Parker was struggling to get to the rim and he was making it look easy, so if the Heat are going to mix it up on TP9, i say we mix it up on them and throw Cojo in. He can't be worse than Neal anyways, that guy played something like 20 minutes and went -28, fucking unfathomably bad

you have to take those stats with a grain of salt due to who the opposing lineup was when each guy was on the court, but it is pretty clear that if Gary Neal isnt hitting 3s, he needs to not be on the court. He cant defend at all, and he really struggles to create a shot on his own. The exact same thing is true of Bonner, although I would like to see him get a little more run too, to try and keep Andersen and Haslem out of the paint more. But again, if he isnt hitting shots, he shouldnt play.

Their role players showed up is why we lost. Chalmers had 15+ and miller/Allen had like 20+ combined. They've only showed up once which was game 2, Leonard and green have shown up on both road games. I won't worry too much until I see their role players show up on the road.

One thing I noticed that annoyed me a bit was manu and Tony kept trying to make passes in between 2 defenders even though Miami want going to allow them to make those passes which led to turnovers or broken down plays.

Manu is a wild card. You take the good with the bad. If he comes out blazing next game that will help us in game 4 by them having to respect him. Neal needs to be benched. Joseph was doing a fine job and all of a sudden he's benched for neals streaky shooting, bad defense and horrible ball handling

Gary Neal should not handle the ball unless he is coming from a pick and roll and has an open shot. If he doesn't get hot after a few shots the he should be pulled immediately because otherwise he doesn't stop chucking and will just hands over possession due to out poor offensive rebouning. Neal is a massive liability on both ends.

Manu looked awkward out there. Not sure what was going on there.

Pop being stubborn should have pulled these guys sooner. Also should've called more timeouts to stop the heat's run and settle the spurs down.

Timmy and Tony weren't getting decent looks.

Tony needed to stop forcing it and be more patient.

Timmy relied on silly fade aways from the post instead of hooks, or his trademark pump fake then bank shot.

The Heat just wanted it more.

Need to stop the perimeter shooters. Just like the Warriors series the Heat WILL hurt us with threes with Allen, Miller, and Chalmers need to pressure them. No open shots!

Give Joseph more time instead of Neal. 22 minutes of Neal is way too much!

Take a look at your flair, ginobli couldn't dribble the entire night yet he insists to keep trying and throwing up questionable shots. It was a poor performance from several people if other people step up neal gets less minutes and less chance to fuck up, we'll be fine by tomorrow TRUST IN POP.

funny you ask if anyone watched... i actually fell asleep and didn't turn it on until the 4th quarter. I can tell you as a spurs fan my entire life and knowing exactly how they play.......

A. Noticing Joey Crawfords name as official.

B. how Miami responds after a loss.

C. how the Spurs already stole home court

I just knew the Spurs would lose game 2, but I really like the Spurs being at home for the next 3 games. I think if the Spurs can win next 2/3 at home...... the Spurs are in great position to win either game 6 or 7 for the title. I feel really good about the spurs going to Miami to win 1 of those games!